Quotes About Generosity

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives. My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments. Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.

I hope someday to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

It's always the kindnesses that finish you off.

I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving. Hospitals bore the names of their donors in six-foot-high letters above the door. Balls were named after those who funded them. Even buses bore lists of names alongside their rear windows. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gopnik were known as generous benefactors because they were visible in society as being so.